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Microsoft Surface Sphere even plays Pong

Deeps — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 04:43:55 GMT

Something cool from the people at Microsoft Research, check out the Pong game.

Article - http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/business/372594_msftsphere29.html

MIT researchers complete wireless electricity test

Deeps — Wed, 13 Jun 2007 05:31:00 GMT

"MIT research team juices up a 60-watt light bulb using "WiTricity"

The day may be coming when PCs, cell phones and many other devices will be run without a battery or electrical cord.

Last week, an MIT research team announced that it had juiced up a 60-watt light bulb using "WiTricity," the name it has given a wireless electricity source it is developing.

The team generated the WiTricity using two copper coils, one attached to a power source. The power coil emitted a field of magnetism to the unpowered coil, stimulating it to generate a current that powered the light bulb from seven feet away, said Andre Kurs, a graduate student in MIT's physics department who worked on the project."

Read the full article here

Sounds really interesting!

New Internet Speed Record

Deeps — Thu, 26 Apr 2007 03:02:00 GMT

"GROUP of researchers led by the University of Tokyo has broken two internet speed records in as many days. Operators of the high-speed Internet2 network announced that the researchers sent data at 7.67 gigabits per second, using standard communications protocols."

"With the 10-fold increase, a high-quality version of the movie The Matrix could be sent in a few seconds rather than half a minute over the current Internet2 and two days over a typical home broadband line."

http://australianit.news.com.au/articles/0,7204,21619026%5E15306,00.html